Fluorite on Dolomite

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This is one of the few larger plates of sheer color. This gorgeous and unusually rich example from the pocket has deep, rich color. In halogens it goes blue and in inside fluorescent lighting it goes a rich seafoam green with blue/purple cores. The whole nest of fat fluorites sits on a massive, large dolomite crystal underneath, and the fluorite coating is complete all around. In person, it is much more 3-dimensional than it appears here. This is from a new pocket found at the end of 2008, and quietly trickled into Tucson in 2009. It should be remembered as a very distinct style, something different from any we have seen before for the mine or a fluorite combination.